...own description of himself. His words are these : " I, Beda, the servant of Christ, and a presbyter of the monastery of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, which is at Wearmouth and Jarrow, was born within the territory of the same monastery. When I was seven years old, I was consigned by...

...own description of himself. His words are these : " I, Beda, the servant of Christ, and a presbyter of the monastery of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, which is at Wearmouth and Jarrow, was born within the territory of the same monastery. When I was seven years old, I was consigned by...

...ancestors, or of my own knowledge, has, with the help of God, been digested by me, Bede, the servant of God, and priest of the monastery of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul, which is at Wiremuth and Gyrwum ; who being born in the territory of that some monastery, at seven years of nge...

...venerable historian says that he was born there. After stating that he was mass priest of the monastry of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, which is at Wearmouth and Jarrow, he adds that he was " born in Sunderland of the same monastry ; or, according to Alfred, " Woes ic...

...author gives a short biographical account of himself, and, after informing us that he was mass-priest of the monastery of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, which is at Wearmouth and Jarrow, adds, he " was born at Sunderland of the game monastery ;" or, as King Alfred the Great has it in his...

...holy Roman and apostolic church. 2. He sent ambassadors to the venerable man, Keolfrith, who was abbot of the monastery, of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, which is at Wire-mouth, by the river Tyne, in the place which is called " In Girwum" over which abbotdom he, Keolfrith,...

...years of age to be educated there by Abbot Benedict, and afterwards by Ceolfrid, " and," he adds, " Spending all the remaining time of my life in that monastery, I wholly applied myself to the study of Scripture, and amidst the observance of regular discipline, and the daily care...

...my own knowledge, I have by the help of God brought unto this order and issue, I, Bede, the servant of God, and priest of the monastery of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul at Wearmouth. Which being born in the territory of the said monastery, when I was seven years of age...

...of Britain, and chiefly of the nation of the Angles, I, Bede, the servant of Christ, and presbyter of the monastery of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, which is at Viuraemuda1 and Ingyruum 2, have, with the Lord's help, set in order, according as I could learn either...

...is the translation of Bede's " Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation." Bede was " mass-priest of the monastery of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, which is at Were Mouth," and his famous history extends from the landing of Julius Caesar to the year 731, when...